Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party headquarters in a car. When he insisted on making the trip by foot, they used clubs and jeeps to scatter the crowds that gathered to catch sight of him. At a later stop, a provincial subgovernor ruled that it would constitute a political meeting if a cafe proprietor pushed a few tables together for Gulek's party. Still another ruling: anything Gulek said while standing up must be considered a political address...
...start small-town newspapers on comparatively small capital. He began publishing his paper in Middletown, N.Y. (pop. 22,586), pitting it against the well-established, conventional Times-Herald, which is owned by another newspaper experimenter, Ralph Ingersoll, founder and publisher of Manhattan's late pinko daily, PM. Proprietor Ingersoll's Times-Herald, which has none of the journalistic or political extremism of his old PM, welcomed its new rival with a hospitable editorial...
Questioned yesterday, one local tavern proprietor described his Convention-watching customers as "not as wild" but "much more intent" than the people who flock to bar television sets for such events as the World Series...
Incensed by the discovery that it was losing millions of tax dollars in illegally exported rubber, the Indonesian government early this year assigned its best investigators to track down the culprits. The trail soon took an embarrassing turn. The chief smuggler-and the proprietor of a neat little fleet that regularly plied the straits between Sumatra and Malaya -turned out to be the Indonesian army. What was worse, the army 1) freely admitted it. 2) boldly declined to stop it. "We smuggle rubber," said a ranking officer. "So what? We have to live...
...film suggests that the headlines were enough to make Rocky think seriously of making a deal with the crooked gamblers, only to be dissuaded by a pep talk from his neighborhood candy-store proprietor and by a fortuitous reconciliation with his father. Somebody ends with Rocky knocking out Zale in a bloody six rounds, but neglects to mention his subsequent run-ins with various boxing commissions or his recent triumphs as a high-paid TV star on NBC's Martha Raye Show, where he plays Martha's lowbrowed but highhearted suitor...